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BEST BUY: The Text Adventure

Britain — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:16:09 +0000

I feel this Best Buy pricing phenomenon is best described in the terms of an Infocom text game:

> LOOK
You are at a Best Buy. There is a Blueshirt and 3 Memory Cards here.

> LOOK BLUESHIRT
A thin trail of spittle glistens on his chin.

> KILL BLUESHIRT
You heartless bastard. Just look at the memory cards.

> LOOK MEMORY CARDS
They are all Sandisk SD memory cards. One is 2GB, one is 4GB, and one is 2GB Ultra High Speed. Which one is the most expensive?

> TAKE 4GB
Wrong. It’s on sale for $24.99 this week.

> TAKE 2GB ULTRA
Also wrong — it’s on sale for $19.99 this week.

> TAKE 2GB REGULAR SPEED
Hey-ooo, big spender! $26.99!

> INVENTORY
You haven’t bought it yet.

> CHECK OUT
The clerk rings you up and offers you a 3-year Protection Plan for… $26.99.

> SOUTH
You are at the exit. There is a yellow shirt here and a gate. The yellowshirt asks to see your receipt.

> SAY “I KNOW MY RIGHTS”
You are forcibly removed from the store. Local police are called, refuse to arrest, but bemusedly ask you why you didn’t just show them the damned receipt.

Abort, Retry, Fail?
>IGNORE

Okay, this kind of wandered a bit, but you get the idea.

Tags: money, SD, retail

Man, it’s like they read my mind

Britain — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:04:39 +0000

“You want a dark, Goth version of Tweety Bird? Have at it.”

Lisa Gregorian of Warner Bros. TV
Fictional Stars Get a 21st Century Facelift - NYTimes.com

Not FORTRAN. Not RATFOR. Not, even, assembly language.

Britain — Thu, 15 May 2008 05:02:27 +0000

I feel duty-bound to describe,
as best I can through the generation gap,
how a Real Programmer wrote code.
I’ll call him Mel..

Ed Nather, The Story of Mel

Made better if you imagine it being told by Sam Shepard as the cowboy narrator in “The Big Lebowski.”

When Buster met the Sox

Britain — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:58:37 +0000

The kids’ TV series “Arthur” is produced in Boston, so could you blame them for having a little team pride following the breaking of the curse?

The Margarita King Approves

Britain — Sat, 10 May 2008 01:51:15 +0000

Thumbs up, soldier. [P.S. Check out that watch!]

Wet cats - a set on Flickr

Britain — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:51:22 +0000

Wet cats - a set on Flickr

There are probably more of these, this is just the first one I noticed… oh wait, here’s the motherlode!

Intel Music Videos by Christopher Guest

Britain — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:14:42 +0000

I would never have clicked these if Intel hadn’t made sure to drop Christoper Guest’s name. That said, “Everything Has Changed” is kind of a catchy little ditty, albeit not exactly “Lick my Love Pump.”

High Voltage compares mobile-phone fighting games

Britain — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:27:22 +0000

I wondered, “How did they cram all the excitement of the arcade game into such a tiny package?” My question was more or less answered when I clicked through the tutorial and saw these ominous words: “PRESS 6 TO ATTACK”

High Voltage Online » Dial-A-Combo: SNK vs. Capcom on your mobile phone

Totalli Knorrli Dude

Britain — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 05:18:49 +0000

Some companies design their mascots from the get-go to look like a man in a suit. When I was a kid, the Putt-Putt mascot “Buster Ball” was a particularly solid example of this, with arms too short to hold a putter. As Happy Gilmore might suggest, he was too good for his home.

Knorrli, pictured here, is the spokessprite for Knorr soup in Europe. Seems harmless enough, doesn’t he? Imagine running into him in your favorite supermarket.

Heaven help you Switzerlanders if The Laughing Cow ever decides to do a victory lap.

Cheer Up, VIacom.

Britain — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:49:03 +0000

It’s kind of like Viacom is her next-door neighbor who yelled at her to turn down her stereo.